Country size comparison

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Eritrea is about 9 times smaller than Mauritania.

Mauritania is approximately 1,030,700 sq km, while Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, making Eritrea 11.41% the size of Mauritania. Meanwhile, the population of Mauritania is ~4.2 million people (2.0 million more people live in Eritrea).
This to-scale comparison of Mauritania vs. Eritrea uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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